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If you’re building and maintaining Visual Studio extensions, you’ve probably ended up with some sort of build and publishing workflow - whether it’s manual, scripted, or stitched together over time. This post is for extension authors who want a simple, repeatable way to build, version, and publish their VSIX files …
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Learn when to use visitor pattern in C# with decision criteria, double dispatch scenarios, and code examples for algorithm separation. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/06/29/when-to-use-visitor-pattern-in-c-decision-guide-with-examples
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Starting from IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2, JetBrains will sunset Kotlin Notebook as a product and will no longer maintain it. The plugin will remain available on an open-source model so the community can continue its development. Below, we explain why we’re making this change, how it affects current Kotlin Notebook users, …
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Part 2 of Build your own claw and agent harness with Microsoft Agent Framework. In Part 1 we stood up a har Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/agent-framework/agent-harness-working-with-your-data-safely
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On July 1, 2027, Remote Event Receivers (RERs) will stop working in SharePoint Online. After that date, no remote event receiver will fire events, regardless of how it was registered. If your application still relies on remote event receivers to react to changes in SharePoint, now is the time to plan your move to Share …
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The wait is over. Spring AI 2.0 is generally available, and Azure Cosmos DB is right there with it. With this release, Sp Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/spring-ai-2-0-is-ga-vector-search-memory-and-agents-on-azure-cosmos-db
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A new OpenAI report maps how AI could reshape jobs across the EU, highlighting which occupations may face automation, growth, or workflow changes. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/mapping-ai-jobs-transition-eu
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Learn how to solve httpclient dns staleness in .NET 10 C# -- why reusing a single HttpClient causes stale DNS responses, and how PooledConnectionLifetime, IHttpClientFactory handler rotation, and SocketsHttpHandler solve the problem for cloud-native and Kubernetes deployments. Link to article: …
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See the interpreter pattern in action with a complete real-world C# example building a search query DSL with expression parsing and evaluation. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/06/28/interpreter-pattern-realworld-example-in-c-complete-implementation
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When populating collections in .NET, choosing the right bulk operation improves both clarity and efficiency. Methods like AddRange() and InsertRange() allow multiple items to be added in a single call, reducing overhead compared to repeated individual inserts and clearly expressing intent. When combined with proper …
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Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I dig into a Reddit thread about engineers reporting directly to a product manager -- the healthy conflict you lose, the career and delivery risks, and how to make it work if you find yourself in that spot. Link to article: …
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How to use IHttpClientFactory in .NET 10 the right way -- comparing basic factory, named clients, and typed clients with real C# examples, and explaining why typed clients can break in singletons. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/06/27/ihttpclientfactory-in-net-named-clients-typed-clients-and-di-patterns
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How to implement the visitor pattern in C# with step-by-step code examples for double dispatch, element hierarchies, and algorithm separation. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/06/27/how-to-implement-visitor-pattern-in-c-stepbystep-guide
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Learn what EU AI Act compliance requires at each risk tier, key deadlines through 2027, and how engineering teams can operationalize AI governance. Link to article: https://www.docker.com/blog/eu-ai-act-compliance/
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NATS almost never comes up when .NET developers talk about message queues, and that's a shame. It's a tiny, fast, single-binary broker, and JetStream adds durable, at-least-once delivery on top. Here's why it's worth a look and how to wire it into an ASP.NET Core app. Link to article: …
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The definitive guide to HttpClient in C# and .NET 10 -- covering correct usage patterns, IHttpClientFactory, DNS pitfalls, resilience, streaming, HTTP/3, testing, and observability. No other article you'll need. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/06/26/httpclient-in-c-the-complete-guide-for-net-developers
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This is the combined May and June round-up for the Azure Developer CLI (azd). Nine releases shipped across the two months: 1.24.3, 1.25.0, Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/azure-developer-cli-azd-may-june-2026
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dotNetDave will be speaking at SQL Saturday in Austin, Texas, on June 27, 2026, as part of the No Rest for the Wicked World Tour. His sessions, "Röck Yoür Cäreer" and "Unleash Your Inner Rockstar," focus on valuable career insights for tech professionals and strategies for dynamic public speaking, …
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In this post, you’ll build a server that extracts text from PDF files in Amazon S3 in real time. This protocol-based approach provides programmatic document access. You’ll walk through the architecture, set up the server, and run interactive document queries. Along the way, you’ll compare this approach with Amazon …
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In this post, we explore how Cara, built in cooperation with AWS, addresses these challenges. We walk through the technical design decisions and the AWS services that support the solution. We also share measurable outcomes Cara has delivered for enterprise brokerages. Link to article: …
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